Mondolkiri Public Forum

on

Justice & Reconciliation

May 2007

DED country director Wolfgang Mollers, Theary Seng (in local ethnic attire), ECCC Press Officer Reach Sambath, Mondolkiri governor, Japanese Political Officer Yonzewa (who spoke tot he audience in Khmer!)

UN (French) Co-Investigating Judge Marcel Lemonde (DC-Cam legal advisor Anne Heindel to far right)

UN (Canadian) Co-Prosecutor Robert Petit

Cambodian Senior Assistant Prosecutor Yet Charya

Japanese Embassy Political Officer Yonzewa, in Khmer, addresses the reasons Japan is the main donor of the Extraordinary Chambers (ECCC, or Khmer Rouge Tribunal), with psychotherapist/consultant to CSD Matthias Witzel to the far right.  (Side note:  Mondolkiri has a different terrain than most of Cambodia and resembles more mountains in northern California.  After a 12-14 hr drive on hazardous slippy, muddy roads along the edges of mountains during the rainy season (!), Matthias and I went searching for a bottle of wine to soothe nerves; we searched and searched and searched and finally desperate, we succumbed to trying "Randolno" (?), the cheap well-advertised "wine" here popular here in Cambodia; a touch to the lips was all it took to say, no matter how desperate,  not this desperate!  It was like putting lips to gasoline.)

Ethnic minority Cambodians, many do not speak the Khmer language but their own dialect...double translation, in addition to the simultaneous and consecutive translation into English via headsets for the non-Cambodian participants.

Students

Dy Khamboli who wrote the history book on the Khmer Rouge used as a supplement in the schools.

Voice of America interviews one of the participants on the public forum.

Listen to the entire Mondolkiri public forum on the Voice of Justice Radio Program, high-resolution recording and professional edited and arranged by Cambodia's best radio personalities.  Approx. 6 hrs.

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI